The Government

God is awesome.

I was recently thinking about how great God is. And how caring he is. In spite of how great and awesome he is, he still cares about the small details of our lives. Here is God, he creates this great world, he creates birds, cattle, the waters, plants, everything. And then he puts us, the zenith of creation into an already created world. We don’t have to worry about anything because everything we need is already provided for.

Even after the fall of Adam and his presence has gone far away, he still looks for a way to get close to us. He looks for a way to get us to look to him for all we need. He couldn’t find anyone capable enough to send to point us back to him. So he came himself in the form of a man. He came and instituted a government where he set himself up as king and based on his work on the cross, we became his heirs to the vast riches of his kingdom. Even though our old enemy has set up a parallel kingdom that sets out to deceive us parading as the truth, causing us grief and pain, the king assures us that if we trust in him and hold on to him to the end, we win. He assures us that there is nothing we can do or so that could make him love us more or less. He tells us that we don’t have to work to earn salvation. In fact, we can’t earn it. We can never deserve it but he has freely given it to us as a gift. He tells us that we shouldn’t work to be saved but we work because we are saved. He then tells us to get moving and go out into the world and bring other people into this kingdom.

Isn’t he awesome? 

JC Cruz is the author of DECEPTIO published by WestBowPress, a division of Thomas Nelson publishers.http://bookstore.westbowpress.com/Products/SKU000194087/Deceptio.aspx and LOST, BUT FOUND available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DPLLEUQ/. You can follow him on Twitter @Cruz_JCReal